Dlesex



BISHOP Buckle.

(No Model.)

No 235,200. Patented Dec. 7, I880.

MPETERS, PNOTO-UTHOGRAPNER. WAQNINQTON. D C.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

ROBERT II. BISHOP, OF LIVERPOOL ROAD, ISLINGTON, COUNTY OF MID- DLESEX,ENGLAND.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,200, dated December'7, 1880.

Application filed August 2, 1850.

(No model.) Patented in Great Britain February .23, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknownthat I ,Ronnn'r Honours Brsnor, of Liverpool Road, Islington,in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented a certain Improvementin Buckles, of which the following is a specification. L

This invention relates to what are commonly known as lever buckles orlever-clip buckles, in which two lever-clips are hinged to a singleframe or shell, one of said lever-clips being employed to secure thebuckle to a strap, while the other is employed to grasp a strap or otherarticle.

The invention is particularly intended for suspen der-buckles havin gattached button-hole tabs or ends, one of the lever-clips serving tograsp the end of the suspender and the other to grasp the waistband ofthe trousers in case of a button being lost or the button-hole tab orend breaking. The invention is, however, applicable to buckles for otherpurposes.

The invention consists in the combination, in a buckle of thischaracter, of two lever-clips and a frame or shell, to which said clipsare hinged, one above the other, and which is constructed with twoslots, one between the leverclips, and through which the strap orsuspender may be passed from the back to, the front of the buckle, andthe other below both elips,and through which the strap or suspender maybe passed from the front to the back of the buckle, the said frame orshell being also constructed with a loop for the attachment of abutton-hole tab or end.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in several views my improvedbrace attachment and the parts composing the same. The buckle iscomposed of sheet metal, and the frame or shell is stamped out from arectangular piece of sheet metal.

Figure 1 represents a blank for a double-lever buckle before it is bentinto shape. a is the body of the blank, and a is a transverse slot cuttherein near its upper edge, of any desired length, to receive the braceor strap. 1) b are two taper cuts made in the blank parallel with, ornearly parallel with, the side edges thereof, for the purpose of formingside strips, 1) 11. Through the opposite ends of these strips holes 0 care pierced to form bearings for two leverclips, one above the other, aswill be presently 'Below this slot a explained. In the blank, below theposition which the lever-clips will occupy, is formed a secondtransverse slot, a which permits of the brace end, when brought over theface of the buckle, being led to the back of the buckle. is a loop, d,for receiving the metal hook of a tab, by which the brace is or may beattached to the trousers.

Fig. 2isa longitudinal section of the blank, the strips b having beenbent up into position and the body of the blank having been corrugatedlongitudinally to impart to it increased stiffness. The shell thusformed is fitted with lever-clips, which have their hearings in the sidepieces, b I). These lever-clips are shown detached at Figs. 3 and 4,Fig. 3 representing, in plan view, the blank from which the clip 6 isformed and the formed clip in edge view, and Fig. 4 representing, inplan, the blank I from which the clip 1' is formed and the formed clipin edge view.

Fig. 5 is a front view of the buckle complete, with the brace g appliedthereto in the manner proper for enabling the buckle to receive thewaistband h of the trousers.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the buckle, the lever-clips beingopen or in the position they would assume when the brace and thewaistband of the trousers are intended to be inserted in the buckle; andFig. 7 is a similar section, showing the brace and trousers firmlyclipped on the buckle.

The lever-clips, it will be seen, are formed with pivot-projections toenter their bearings a, and in line with these pivots the edge of themetal is bent over, so as to form a clipping edge, which, when broughtinto contact with the brace or the trouser-waistband, as the case maybe, will hold the same firmly, as indicated in Fig. 7.

To prevent the side strips, 1), from springing under the pull put uponthe lower lever-clip, f, and thereby allowing that clip to becomedisplaced, I form rivet-heads on the pivot-projections ofthatlever-clip,as shown at Fig. 5; but no such provision is requisitefor securing the upper clip-lever.

Fig. 8 shows the ordinary way of using the buckle. In this case thebrace g is passed under the lever-clip 0, brought down through the slota to the front of the buckle, and then led through the slota to the backofthebucklc, thereby covering the greater portion of the face of thebuckle. In this figure, i is on ordinary double tab, provided with ametal hook i'orontering the loop (I of the buckle, and it is only whenby the giving way of n brace-button or the breaking oi one of the tabsthat the griping of the waistband by the buckle, as shown at Fig. 7, isresorted to. It will be seen that thefreeend of t he strup or hmco isthus secured in the buckle without interfering at all with the use ofthe lower h'vcr-clip, fi

It will be also understood that the buckle may be employed forconnecting together the ends of straps or hands, us thought desirable.

Having now explained the nature of my involition, I Wish it to beunderstood that claim The combination, in u buckle, of the leveesubstantially as specified.

hated the 6th day of July, 1880.

ROBERT II. BISHOP. Witnesses ALFRED S. BISHOP, L. It. BLANCH/mo,

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